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Take The Utterly Ridiculous Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)
In his 1938 novel The Unvanquished , William Faulkner portrays Colonel Sartoris as a figure emblematic of post-Civil War Southern...


The Tulsa Race Massacre: When Black Wall Street Burned in 1921
In the early summer of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a place of contradictions. It was a city on the rise, oil-rich, bustling with new money, and sharply divided by race. In the north, the Greenwood District stood as a beacon of Black prosperity. Created in the shadow of segregation, Greenwood was a community that had learned not just to survive but to thrive in its own right. It had its own shops, banks, churches, restaurants, a hospital, and two newspapers. Doctors, teachers


L.A. Woman: Why The Doors’ 1971 Raw, Ragged and Final Triumph is Their True Masterpiece
By 1970, The Doors were teetering on the edge. The past five years had been a whirlwind: hit records, sold-out tours, obscenity trials,...
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